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CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting an update about the competition to pick a site for his future presidential library.
Obama stopped by his family's home on Chicago's South Side while in town to designate a national monument and campaign for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's re-election.
The Barack Obama Foundation, a nonprofit, is choosing from four universities that made the short list. The White House says the board chairman Marty Nesbitt and others members of the foundation team are briefing Obama.
The University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University in New York and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu are competing. Last week the Chicago Park District approved transferring 20 acres (8 hectares) to the city, to be leased to the foundation if Chicago gets the library.
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